Gunder Hagg, a Swedish athlete, seeks new records in U.S. A plane lands and Gunder Hagg emerges. He is welcomed by an officer. Hagg waves to the officer. He runs on a race track.
Dionne quintuplets, the five identical sisters from Canada, present at launch of five cargo ships at Walter Butler Shipbuilders in Superior, Wisconsin. Luggage belonging to the five Dionne quintuplets. The Dionne sisters and their parents wave from a moving railroad train. The Dionne sisters each launch a ship one after the other assisted by a U.S. Navy officer. The Dionne sisters and their mother walk escorted by navy officers.
An early helicopter being tested at facility of the P-V Engineering Forum (later the Piasecki Co.) in Roxborough, Pennsylvania. Pilot attempting tethered flight in a one-place stripped prototype of the P-V2 helicopter Men stand by side of the helicopter as the pilot sits in the framework cockpit. They maintain hold on the landing gear of the helicopter as the pilot experiments with the controls and familiarizes himself with the helicopter's response. A long tethering rope snakes out along the ground near the helicopter. The pilot succeeds in hovering the craft a foot or two above the ground.
Dedication of the Merchant Marine Service Station in New York. Ten thousand Merchant Marines march at the dedication of the Merchant Marine Service Station.
United States Post Office Department operations seen in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. A postal office employee operates the Pneumatic tubes system for tranporting mail pieces. He lifts a cylindrical container and places in into a Pneumatic tube for transit.
The SS Normandie passenger ship capsized in the Hudson River off New York City, New York, United States. A diver wearing a scuba diving suit prepares to dive. Other people help the diver to put on his helmet and adjust it The diver steps down from a ladder into the water. Other sailors aboard hold and loosen their ropes. Three divers float in the river near a pier on the side of the ocean liner.